Blooded the 25-06

[geezer56]

I finally got one with the 25-06.  It was the biggest deer of my life.  Hunting in South Alabama, over a green field, also watching a timber company roadway.  He crossed the road about 120 yds from my tree stand.  One shot (DUH) with Rem 120 gr factory load.  Hit one rib going in, 2 going out, about 1/3 of the way up the body, just behind the shoulder.  I found about half of his lungs in the roadway, Ray Charles could have tracked him.  He went about 45 yds and piled up.  Aged him at 4 1/2 yrs, by the teeth.  He weighed 174 lbs, 14 1/2 in. inside spread, 15 in main beams, 5 in dia at bases, 8 point.  Not a monster, but nice, by local standards.   He was the biggest deer killed on our lease in the last few years.  I'm still grinning.

[wayne24]

Nice job  !!!! hope you got pics
Wayne

[yukondog]

Congrats on a nice deer. Pitchers man we need pitchers.

[necchi]

Good for you! That IS big for your neck of the woods!

[Cottonwood]

Congrats!

[Daman]

Geezer

Where in South Alabama are you located? I am in Washington County! So I know fr a fact that was a GOOD buck for these woods!

[geezer56]

I actually live in NC.  I go down to Covington Co. near Florala twice a year to hunt with my Father In Law and Brother In Law.  I've been going there for 12 yrs now.  Best deer I ever got there, very few better by anyone else.  They have got a couple with bigger racks, but never one any heavier.

[Daman]

Well congrats! I have hunted South Alabama deer all my 21 years and have only killed three or four with any size to them. 1 ten point, 2 eights and a huge 6

[geezer56]

I've killed several bucks down there over the years.  Two small 7 pts, a 6 pt, a 5 pt, and one decent 8 pt.  We started a QDM program about 10 yrs ago.  NO spikes, a legal buck must have at least 3 pts on one side.  Only one of those, then 4 pts minimum on one side for the other 2 that Alabama allows.  Since we started the program, average wt of bucks has gone from 125 lbs to 145 lbs.  Doe wt has gone from 90-95 lbs to over 100, with 110 about an average.  We have gone from killing 3 or 4 does for every buck to about even numbers.  Total harvest is about the same as before.  I thought they were ruining the hunting by making it too hard to kill a deer, but I was wrong.  We have 3600 acres, so it works on our place.  Smaller acreage might not work so well, but it has worked for us.

[Daman]

We do sort of the same thing. We hunt around 2500 acres and only shoot six points and better. Also we must kill one doe per buck (we had a lot of does when we started). We are all now regularly passing on average 6 points because most of our 6 points are two year old deer now.

[briannmilewis]

There is a really good article on Chuck Hawk's website about the 25-06 and elk hunting with the heavy loads...Enjoy!
http://www.chuckhawks.com/why_25-06.htm

[cwlongshot]

I finally got one with the 25-06.  It was the biggest deer of my life.  Hunting in South Alabama, over a green field, also watching a timber company roadway.  He crossed the road about 120 yds from my tree stand.  One shot (DUH) with Rem 120 gr factory load.  Hit one rib going in, 2 going out, about 1/3 of the way up the body, just behind the shoulder.  I found about half of his lungs in the roadway, Ray Charles could have tracked him.  He went about 45 yds and piled up.  Aged him at 4 1/2 yrs, by the teeth.  He weighed 174 lbs, 14 1/2 in. inside spread, 15 in main beams, 5 in dia at bases, 8 point.  Not a monster, but nice, by local standards.   He was the biggest deer killed on our lease in the last few years.  I'm still grinning.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

CW